jQuery Calendar Plug-in

JavaScript
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Hey all. I’m not very good with JavaScript and I’m slightly scared to be even viewing this forum, much less starting a thread in it (:]

I’m making a site for a local youth group. I’d like to include a nice-looking, smooth, efficient calendar of events that is small enough to go in a sidebar. The effect that I want is to have the calendar display event info upon selecting a date. That is, once I select, say March 26th, then a small dropdown detaches from the calendar and displays a “who, what, when” etc.

I looked around and saw the jQuery UI plug-in. Is there any way to extend its documentation to achieve what I want?

Here’s an image of what I imagine it’d look like. (Just ignore the blue line at the top - that’s a Photoshop guide :P)

Thanks all, in advance!
~TehYoyo

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The calendar documentation shows hat it has an event called onSelect, from which you can add additional code to achieve what you want there.

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Right…how hard is the plug-in to work with? I’m really, as I mentioned, terrible w/ anything J-related. Could I figure it out w/ much struggle or is it a daunting task?

~TehYoyo

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Not hard at all, compared with attempting to do things outside of the plugin.

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I mean, how hard is it to write the added jQuery? :frowning: Not a big JavaScript guy, as said.

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Not that hard. jQuery provides some good useful tools to let you manipulate the DOM and create [url='http://api.jquery.com/jQuery/#jQuery2"]new elements

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Cool thanks a lot. I’ll take a look at it.

~TehYoyo